New York Citys infant mortality rate widely regarded as a barometer of a populations general health fell slightly in 2006, the Health Department reported today. The rate in 2006 was 5.9 infant deaths for every 1,000 births, down from 6.0 the previous year. The City has made major progress in red...

A review of published research from the University of Liege, Belgium, reveals a decline in the number of people experiencing allergic reactions to insulin//. This is largely due to better purification of animal insulin and the introduction of human recombinant insulin.
The review also looks f...

...sult, year-to-date net income was approximately $1.1 billion, versus net income of $601 million in the same period last year.
Total membership declined by nearly 36,000 members and remained at approximately 8.6 million in the first six months of the year. Capital spending totaled approximately $1.1 b...

... research revenue.
Gross margin on product sales declined slightly to $0.6 million for the three months ende...months ended June 30, 2009, the Company's net loss declined significantly to $1.7 million compared to $2.9 mil.... For the six months ended June 30, 2009, net loss declined by 12% to $4.5 million from $5.1 million.
Cash a...

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Revenue of $335 million declined 8.8 percent versus prior year and was stable to la... Adjusted operating expenses exclusive of Liko declined $18.0 million (13.1 percent)
Free cash ...ow performance during the quarter. Although sales declined year over year by $32 million, pre-tax income from...

...restructuring costs) for the second quarter of 2009 were 19.0% as a percentage of revenue as compared to 19.2% in the same quarter last year. SG&A declined by $22.3 million, or 37%, over the same period in the prior year and by $12.2 million, or 24%, sequentially, due to cost-saving initiatives taking hol...

...'s year-over-year revenues have increased dramatically while gross profit margin and adjusted EBITDA have increased in absolute dollar terms, but have declined as a percentage of total sales. These changes do not affect profitability on an absolute dollar or per share basis.
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...7 million in the first half of 2008. Gross margin increased 41% from $11.1 million to $15.7 million in the 2009 six month period. Operating expenses declined 19%, resulting in a 46% reduction in the operating loss to $13.8 million for the first six months of 2009 compared with $25.4 million in the same peri...

...9, respectively.
On the other hand, average per-patient spending for heart conditions fell, from $4,333 to $3,964. And spending on mental disorders declined from $1,825 to $1,591.
In the Monday study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry , researchers reported that 10.12 percent of U.S. re...

...p producer at http://www.MedicareSupplementPlans.com . Recent reports have shown that the percentage of those with health insurance in California has declined from 61.7 percent in 2000 to 58.6 percent in 2007. That number is lower than the national average of more than 64 percent.
This growing number o...

...FT parameters (forced vital capacity, total lung capacity, and carbon monoxide diffusion test).
Consistent with the normal course of aging, PFTs declined in all groups, including the nondiabetic group. Based on the predefined endpoint, over 2 years, there was no difference in mean change in FEV(1) (mean...

...ions in patients who have obesity surgery, also known as bariatric surgery, declined 21 percent between 2002 and 2006. They also found that payments to hospital...rcent, while complication-caused same-day hospital outpatient clinic visits declined from approximately 15 percent to 13 percent.
According to Dr. Encinosa...

...isk factor for preterm birth, have begun to stabilize. The rate of twin births was unchanged in 2005 and 2006, and triplets and higher order multiples declined 5 percent in 2006.
"The health consequences for babies who survive an early birth can be devastating and we know that preterm birth exacts a toll...

...1 million Americans (1.6 percent) have been infected
with hepatitis C; 3.2 million are chronically infected. The number of new
infections per year has declined from an average of 240,000 in the 1980s to
about 26,000 in 2004. CDC estimates the number of hepatitis C-related
deaths could increase to 38,000 annua...

... placebo for 12 months who were then crossed over to Dimebon on the OLE
phase also stabilized across all key measures tested. Since these patients
had declined over the previous 12 months while on placebo, they stabilized
at a lower level of function than those treated with Dimebon for the full
18 months.
D...

... 12 months who were then crossed over
to Dimebon in the open-label extension phase stabilized across all key
measures tested. Since these patients had declined over the previous 12
months while on placebo, they generally stabilized at a lower level of
function than those treated with Dimebon for the full 18 m...

...ts in both the
tarenflurbil and placebo groups had declined approximately seven points on
the ADAS-cog scale a...fact that both the drug-treated and placebo groups declined over
the course of the trial - and that the placebo-treated patients declined at
the expected rate - shows that we can do this t...

...meals and at
bedtime each day, as well as a 7-point blood glucose profile at weeks 2, 6,
12, 18, and 24 (endpoint). Blood glucose values at each visit declined in
both arms, and the within-group change from baseline was statistically
significant over all daily time points and study visits. By the study's
conc...

... respiratory symptom score, were all significantly improved in the
Perforomist(TM)/TIO group compared with PLA/TIO. Use of albuterol rescue
medication declined in the Perforomist(TM)/TIO group and remained low
throughout the treatment, whereas albuterol use in the PLA/TIO group
trended higher through the six ...

...ved significantly with the Perforomist(TM)/TIO treatment compared with
TIO/placebo (p<0.05). Cough scores did not differ between groups. Albuterol
use declined in the Perforomist(TM)/TIO group from 2.4 to1.3 puffs/day and
increased in the TIO/placebo group from 2.8 to 3.4 puffs/day over six
weeks; another sta...

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...orth America during the Eocene epoch and found that diversity increased and declined with rising and falling temperatures.
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... Large trees have declined in Yosemite National Park during the 20th century, and warmer climate conditions may play a role.
The number of large-diameter trees in the park declined 24 percent between the 1930s and 1990s. U.S. Geological Survey and Universi...

...natural gas extraction sites and their noise-producing compressors with birds nesting in adjacent, quieter woodland sites. While bird species richness declined at noisy sites, the bird nesting success was higher there than in the nearby quiet sites, said CU-Boulder doctoral candidate Clinton Francis, lead aut...

...ally rich Central Valley, winter chill has already declined by nearly 30 percent, the researchers found.
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...perienced the fastest rate of cognitive decline," Barnes said. "Cognitive decline also was faster in those whose physical activity levels consistently declined during the study period."
According to the researchers, sedentary elders who began new aerobic exercise programs experienced improvements in cogni...

...d the macular pigments, slowing down the progression from early AMD to late AMD.
In contrast, the macular pigments of participants in a placebo group declined steadily.
Dr Chakravarthy added: "These findings are important because this is the first randomised controlled clinical trial to document a benefici...

...incidence trends within countries such as Japan, Israel, and Singapore. The United States was the only country where colorectal cancer incidence rates declined in both males and females.
The authors say the increase in colorectal cancer in economically transitioning countries may reflect the adoption of we...

...d with novel viruses such as swine flu had no natural resistance against these diseases.
Before long, Hawaii's native honeycreepers significantly declined in numbers and geographic range. It was likely that malaria swept rapidly across all of the lower Hawaiian Islands after the disease was introduced, l...

...said Xi, assistant professor of public health.
Xi and colleagues found that while the total number of bacteria left in the final discharge effluent declined dramatically after treatment, the remaining bacteria was significantly more likely to resist multiple antibiotics than bacteria in water samples upstr...

...Society's "List of Top 20 Common Birds in Decline." "Since 1967, the top eightmore than 70 percent of the populationhave declined. The top 10 have all declined by two-thirds or greater over a period of four decades. They're declining fast, and in biological terms, incredibly fast."
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...ucts albeit delayed," said William J. Gastle, CEO of Microbix.
Third Quarter Highlights
Core Business
In the third quarter, sales declined 7% compared to the very strong third quarter in 2008. "Fourth quarter sales are expected to be steady but the overall outlook is that demand for virol...

... the fact that physician prescriptions of Actimmune for the treatment of IPF, an indication for which Actimmune has not been approved by the FDA, have declined significantly following the March 2007 termination of the Phase 3 INSPIRE trial of Actimmune in IPF and the risk that InterMune's revenue will continu...

...y economic and credit market conditions. Sales of our Base Medical Products declined by approximately 13% in the second quarter of 2009 as compared to the secon... 2009. Excluding the impact of foreign currency changes, revenue would have declined by 10% as compared to the second quarter of 2008. Foreign currency fluctuat...

...ver the same period last year. Gross profit for the Sales Services segment declined to $2.3 million from $5.2 million last year, while gross profit in the Mark...ion initiatives.
Other income, which is primarily interest income, declined by $0.7 million in 2009 compared to 2008 due to a combination of lower avai...

...o $558
million, as ADDERALL XR product sales declined by 77%, or $229 million
to $67 million, as a...ADDERALL XR.
In Q2 2009 sales of ADDERALL XR declined by 77% to $67 million. A
decline in ADDERALL... ADHD market for the three months to June
30, 2009 declined by approximately 8 percentage points to 24.5% (200...

... 2009, an increase of 5.0% over the same period last year. North American biotechnology sales to industrial pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers declined approximately 2% during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009. The Company attributes the lower fourth quarter sales growth rate to continued customer cau...

...ng a family member with RA. "When I was 10 years old, my mother was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, and my family struggled as my mother's health declined rapidly. Back then, there was very little information and support available to help us understand the physical and emotional impact of RA," said Norvi...

...vided a 54 percent improvement of heart function compared to 27 percent for the original MyoCell composition while the placebo control treated animals declined by 10 percent. The preclinical studies also demonstrated that this product candidate can enhance blood vessel formation in damaged hearts.
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...m as well as expand the number of their locations to which we provide services. As a result, revenue from this customer's bladder cancer FISH testing declined by $278,000 in Q2 09 compared with Q2 08, which was partially offset by increases of approximately $103,000 generated from expanding the scope of othe...

... and 2.0% for the second quarter and first six months of 2009, respectively. Organic sales for SAFC, the Company's specialty fine chemicals business, declined by 7.2% and 6.3% for the second quarter and first six months of 2009, respectively. SAFC total sales in Q2 2009 improved on Q1 2009 levels, but are co...

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